Saturday, November 22, 2008

For those of you who use the iGoogle homepage, a gadget has been created that puts the latest readings from the UW weather station right on your homepage.

As well as the latest readings the gadget also displays the current weather conditions (at the moment it comes from weather underground, but we are working on making current condition statements from the UW weather station data) and any current Environment Canada weather advisories. You can also set it up so see the latest postings from this blog.

Saturday, November 1, 2008

It must be fall with the battles between cold air from the north and warm air from the south, this showed up in the temperature record with lots of days that were either well above or well below average. But as often happens in this case, they cancelled each other out and we are left with an overall temperature within the average range (0.3 degrees below average for the month).

For the first time since April, we had a below average month for precipitation. Only 45.0 mm fell during October in lots of small storms throughout the month with only 1 day having double digit precipitation (11.2 mm on the 8th).

We have now had 907.9 mm of precipitation this year compared to the average of 754.9 mm for the end of October. So even if we don't get anything in November and December, we have now surpassed the average annual precipitation for the area (904.1 mm). However, we have slipped down to being the 8th wettest first 10 months of the year from the 5th wettest first 9 months of the year.

Environment Canada prediction of temperature for the month: AverageActual Temperature: Average